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Need Urgent Dental Care?

If you need help with an urgent dental problem, call our helpline, available from 9am to 9:30pm everyday, including weekends and Bank Holidays.

0161 476 9651 (Local Rate)

Local dental providers offer NHS urgent dental clinics across Cheshire and Merseyside, with urgent appointments for patients who need urgent treatment, advice and support on dental queries or referral to other services.

The service is provided according to strict clinical criteri

a and when you call you'll be assessed by a member of our clinical team to make sure your problem come under either:

Trauma - this is usually caused by a blow to the face, a lost filling is not classed as a trauma.

Swelling of the face

Bleeding, uncontrolled, such as after an extraction

Pain that can't be controlled by pain relief medicines.

If you're given an appointment and your problem doesn't fit of the above, you'll still have to pay the NHS fee but may receive advice and not treatment.

Clinic times vary.and at busy times or when your local clinic's not available you may be offered an appointment at an alternative location.

Please not: this is an appointment only service - we do not operate a "drop in" service at any of our surgeries

New Patient Registration

To register with Garswood Surgery, please call into the surgery and collect a GMS1 Registration form and a New Patient Health Questionnaire for each person registering. Then complete these forms and hand them back to the receptionist.

If you would like to join the practice you should ideally bring your medical card with you when you come to register, however, if this is unavailable we can give you a form to complete. Registration is easy and takes only a couple of minutes.

Please note, it is not necessary for every member of a household to complete forms individually. Any adult member of the family can register any other family member and sign the registration applications on their behalf.

*Please note that we are unable to provide newly registered patient with an urgent appointment until at least 48 hours after their registration has been accepted.*

We will register your details on our clinical database you will receive a letter from Central Operations confirming your registration has been accepted. We will request your medical records from your previous GP surgery at this point, but these can take up to 6 weeks to arrive at the surgery. If you take any regular medication, please bring in your repeat order slip in with your registration form as confirmation of your medication, and these will be added to your clinical record. Please note that the GP may wish to see you prior to your medication being issued.

As a patient you have the right to express preference as to whom you wish to see, however, if you require an appointment and your preferred GP is not available you will be offered an appointment with another doctor. If you still wish to see your preferred GP you may have to wait longer.

We also have a range of online services available including appointment booking and ordering prescriptions. If this service is something you would be interested in, please provide us with photographic ID and we will be able to register you for online access.

Guide to GP Services

The Royal College of General Practitioners has produced a useful guide for patients about the services on offer at GP Surgeries and how to access them. You can download the guide below.

These fact sheets have been written to explain the role of UK health services, the National Health Service (NHS), to newly-arrived individuals seeking asylum. They cover issues such as the role of GPs, their function as gatekeepers to the health services, how to register and how to access emergency services.

Special care has been taken to ensure that information is given in clear language, and the content and style has been tested with user groups. Open the leaflets in one of the following languages

Temporary Registration

If you are ill while away from home or if you are not registered with a doctor but need to see one you can receive emergency treatment from the local GP practice for 14 days. After 14 days you will need to register as a temporary or permanent patient.

You can be registered as a temporary patient for up to three months. This will allow you to be on the local practice list and still remain a patient of your permanent GP. After three months you will have to re-register as a temporary patient or permanently register with that practice.

To register as a temporary patient simply contact the local practice you wish to use. Practices do not have to accept you as a temporary patient although they do have an obligation to offer emergency treatment. You cannot register as a temporary patient at a practice in the town or area where you are already registered.